Daughter Pushes for Murder Charges Against Dad After Mom of 8 Drowns in Bathtub

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Michele MacNeill is home recovering from cosmetic surgery when she is found dead in the bathtub. Originally, her death was ruled an accident, but daughter Alexis, a medical student, wasn't convinced. Before her death, Michele MacNeill confided in her daughter that she thought her doctor husband was over-medicating her. At her husband's request, the operating surgeon prescribed four drugs, he would not normally give his patients. Two of the drugs were Diazepam and Oxycodone. Alexis took over administering her mother's meds. When Michelle seems on the mend, Alexis returns to med school. The next day, her mother is found by a younger sister; she was dead in the bathtub. The autopsy report concluded that Michele died of cardiovascular disease but Alexis had other suspicions, compounded by a comment made by her mother... " If anything happens to me, make sure it's not your father." Joining Nancy Grace Today: Dale Carson - Criminal Defense Attorney (Jacksonville), Former FBI Agent, Former Police Officer, Author: "Arrest-Proof Yourself, DaleCarsonLaw.com Dr. Shari Schwartz - Forensic Psychologist (specializing in Capital Mitigation and Victim Advocacy), www.panthermitigation.com, Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrialDoc, Author: "Criminal Behavior" and "Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology" Dr. Michelle Dupre - Forensic Pathologist and former Medical Examiner, Author: “Homicide Investigation Field Guide” & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide", Former Police Detective Lexington County Sheriff’s Department www.DMichelleDupreMD.com Justin Boardman - Former Special Victim's Unit Detective, West Valley City (Utah), Author: "I Was Wrong: An Investigator's Battle-cry for Change Withing the Special Victims Unit", JustinBoardman.com, Twitter: @boardman_train Connor Richards - Freelance Reporter (Utah County, Utah), Twitter: @crichards1995 connorrichardsmedia.wordpress.com

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,
0:25.2	the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.
0:29.8	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:34.8	The world that I inhabited gave me insight into things that most of the general public
0:39.6	can't even begin to imagine, always having to view the app normal in the context of the normal,
0:45.7	to make them make sense if you will. When all is said and done, I was the voice of the dead.
0:51.5	Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:57.2	or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:05.8	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
1:12.6	How does a beauty queen, a straight-A student when she was in school, the mother of eight,
1:19.2	four bio, four adopted, and up dead in the bathtub of her own home?
1:34.9	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
1:40.6	I'm talking about a beautiful mother, Michelle McNeil.
1:44.8	Michelle Summers was a fresh-faced beauty queen from California, a sometime model with a string of
1:52.1	suitors. But it was a handsome aspiring doctor named Martin McNeil, who made her fall hard and fast.
1:58.8	They alloped when Michelle was 21 and soon afterward started a family.
2:03.5	Michelle Marie Summers grew up in Southern California and graduated in 1975. She was royalty,
2:10.2	being chosen as homecoming queen that same year. She met Martin McNeil,
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